Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 User guide

Brand: Novell

Model: ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3

Category: Database software

Type: User guide

Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3 arms you with the power to manage and secure all your endpoints irrespective of their location, enabling proactive control over your IT assets and ensuring regulatory compliance. It streamlines patch management, automates software distribution and efficiently handles OS deployments, all while significantly reducing the burden on your IT helpdesk. With ZENworks, you can effortlessly manage your diverse device ecosystem, empowering your workforce and safeguarding your business.

AdminStudio 9.0 Release Notes (29 August 2008) 1

AdminStudio 9.0

Release Notes

29 August 2008

Contents

Introduction ....................................................................................................................2

Components ................................................................................................................... 2

Standard Edition........................................................................................................................ 2

Professional Edition.................................................................................................................. 3

Enterprise Edition ..................................................................................................................... 3

Virtualization Pack for Enterprise Edition ............................................................................... 3

New Features..................................................................................................................4

Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions ................................................................... 4

Repackager Support for Double-Byte Character Systems............................................................. 4

InstallShield 2009 Functionality ...................................................................................................... 4

Enterprise Edition ..................................................................................................................... 6

OS Security Patch Wizard............................................................................................................... 6

Virtualization Pack for Enterprise Edition ............................................................................... 6

Pre-Conversion Evaluation for Application Virtualization ............................................................... 6

Virtual Application Management..................................................................................................... 6

Virtual Application Suiting ............................................................................................................... 7

Virtual Application Batch Conversion ............................................................................................. 7

Citrix XenApp 4.5.1 Virtualization Engine Support ......................................................................... 7

VMware ThinApp Support, Including AppLink and AppSync Support .......................................... 7

System Requirements.................................................................................................... 8

AdminStudio Client Tool Machine............................................................................................ 8

Application Catalog Database Server...................................................................................... 8

AdminStudio Web Server..........................................................................................................9

Software Repository Server ................................................................................................... 10

Known Issues ...............................................................................................................10

AdminStudio 9.0 Release Notes (29 August 2008) 2

Introduction

With AdminStudio 9.0, Acresso delivers to organizations a smoother, more feature-rich solution to help

ensure application readiness, while also providing new time and effort-saving functionality that enables

organizations to prepare for a Vista OS migration and/or application virtualization migrations.

AdminStudio 9.0 provides support for leading application virtualization technologies including Citrix®

XenApp™ (formerly known as Citrix Presentation Server™) and VMware ThinApp™ (formerly Thinstall™

Virtualization Suite™).

AdminStudio 9.0's expanded application virtualization toolkit includes a new a Pre-Conversion

Evaluation functionality that allows the proactive testing of applications for virtualization compatibility

before proceeding with conversion. This feature also incorporates an extensible test framework that

enables you to write your own XML-based custom rules to detect and remediate issues that could

prevent the successful creation of a reliable virtual package. Additional application virtualization features

in AdminStudio 9.0 include batch conversion, virtual application suiting, and the ability to import virtual

packages into the Application Catalog and the Software Repository.

AdminStudio 9.0 InstallShield Editor also includes the features of the InstallShield 2009 release.

Components

AdminStudio 9.0 is available in Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions.

• Standard Edition

• Professional Edition

• Enterprise Edition

• Virtualization Pack for Enterprise Edition

Standard Edition

AdminStudio 9.0 Standard Edition includes the following components:

• Repackager

• Distribution Wizard

• FLEXwrap

• InstallShield 2009

• Tuner

• Application Isolation Wizard

• Configuration Manager Web Console (Limited)

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Components

Professional Edition

AdminStudio 9.0 Professional Edition includes all of the Standard Edition components plus the following

additional components:

• ConflictSolver

• Application Manager

• OS Snapshot Wizard

• QualityMonitor

• Predeployment Test

• Configuration Manager Web Console (Full)

Enterprise Edition

AdminStudio 9.0 Enterprise Edition includes all of the Professional Edition components plus the

following additional components:

• PackageExpert

• OS Security Patch Wizard

• Job Manager

• Report Center

• Software Repository

• Security Console

Virtualization Pack for Enterprise Edition

The Virtualization Pack provides Citrix and ThinApp virtualization support as add-on features to the

Enterprise Edition. The following additional components are available:

• Citrix Assistant

• ThinApp Assistant

• Windows Installer Converter

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New Features

AdminStudio 9.0 includes the following new features:

Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions

• Repackager Support for Double-Byte Character Systems

• InstallShield 2009 Functionality

Enterprise Edition

• OS Security Patch Wizard

Virtualization Pack for Enterprise Edition

• Pre-Conversion Evaluation for Application Virtualization

• Virtual Application Management

• Virtual Application Suiting

• Virtual Application Batch Conversion

• Citrix XenApp 4.5.1 Virtualization Engine Support

• VMware ThinApp Support, Including AppLink and AppSync Support

Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions

AdminStudio 9.0 Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions include the following new features.

Repackager Support for Double-Byte Character Systems

Properly capturing and presenting double-byte characters—such as Japanese, Korean or Arabic—is

becoming increasingly important to worldwide organizations, including AdminStudio's Asia-Pacific

based customers. AdminStudio Repackager is now enhanced to ensure that the Repackager will

support double-byte character systems.

InstallShield 2009 Functionality

AdminStudio 9.0 InstallShield Editor includes the following features of the InstallShield 2009 release:

• Ability to associate InstallShield prerequisites with features—InstallShield now enables you

to associate InstallShield prerequisites with one or more features. This new type of InstallShield

prerequisite is called a feature prerequisite. It is installed if a feature that contains the prerequisite is

installed and if the prerequisite is not already installed on the system. Including InstallShield

prerequisites in your project enables you to chain multiple installations together, bypassing the

Windows Installer limitation that permits only one Execute sequence to be run at a time. If any

package in the chain fails, any previous packages in the chain will also be rolled back.

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New Features

• Windows Installer 4.5 support—You can use InstallShield to create Windows Installer packages

that leverage the functionality in Windows Installer 4.5.

• Installation of multiple packages using transaction processing—InstallShield lets you

add Windows Installer packages to Basic MSI, InstallScript MSI, and Web projects as chained

.msi packages. If your Basic MSI, InstallScript MSI, or Web installation includes chained .msi

packages and Windows Installer 4.5 is present on the target system, the Windows Installer

installs the multiple packages using transaction processing.

• Support for using the InstallScript Engine as an embedded user interface for

InstallScript MSI installations—For InstallScript MSI projects, you now have the option to

use the InstallScript engine as an embedded custom user interface (UI) handler, rather than as

an external custom UI handler, as it has traditionally been used.

• Shared component patching—InstallShield includes support for the new shared component

patching feature that is available with Windows Installer 4.5.

• Support for superseding components—Use the new Uninstall Superseded Component

setting in the Components view to specify how you want Windows Installer 4.5 to handle the

selected component during installation of a superseding patch under certain conditions.

• Support for running a custom action only during patch uninstallation—Use the new

Run During Patch Uninstall setting for a custom action to indicate whether Windows Installer

should run the selected custom action only when a patch is being uninstalled.

• Visual Studio 2008 support—InstallShield is now integrated with Visual Studio 2008.

• .NET Framework 3.5 support—InstallShield now includes several new .NET-related InstallShield

prerequisites that you can add to Basic MSI, InstallScript MSI, and Web projects. InstallShield now

supports the option to either install or include a requirement to install the .NET Framework 3.5 and

the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 in Windows Installer installations.

• Managed-code custom action support—InstallShield 2009 enables you to easily add

managed-code custom actions to Basic MSI, InstallScript MSI, and Merge Module projects without

manually writing code.

• Installing multiple product instances—Using InstallShield, you can create Windows Installer

packages that have the ability to install multiple instances of the same product on the same

machine.

• Hebrew and Arabic language support—You can now use InstallShield to present installation

text and buttons in Hebrew and Arabic.

• Ability to build unicode versions of the setup.exe and update.exe bootstrappers—

InstallShield now enables you to specify whether you want to build a Unicode version or an ANSI

version of the

setup.exe setup launcher for a Basic MSI or Web project, allowing you to correctly

display text in double-byte locales. Previously, if your Basic MSI or Web project included a setup

launcher, InstallShield always built an ANSI version; it did not include support for building a

Unicode version.

• Four InstallShield MSI tools—Four new InstallShield MSI tools save you time and effort by

providing a user interface for common troubleshooting tasks.

• InstallShield MSI Diff lets you easily compare two MSI, MSM, PCP, or MSP database files or

two InstallShield project files. A color-coded display clearly shows what changes have been

made to the files.

• InstallShield MSI Query helps you ensure the accuracy of SQL statements by testing them

before they run in the build script. It saves you time by displaying a direct, visual representation

of the success of your code.

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New Features

• InstallShield MSI Sleuth eliminates hours of tedious research by letting you run a database

query to identify MSI packages against third-party installers. It makes it easy to detect legacy

setups so that they can be replaced with industry-standard MSI packages.

• InstallShield MSI Grep can run searches of MSI and MSM files to locate specific elements

within the database. It saves you time by eliminating the manual scrutinization of database

lines to locate data.

Enterprise Edition

AdminStudio 9.0 Enterprise Edition includes the following new feature.

OS Security Patch Wizard

OS Security Patch Wizard is a new AdminStudio tool that is used to import Microsoft operating system

patch information into the Application Catalog. You can then use ConflictSolver to analyze the full

impact of installing these patches on user machines, enabling you to determine the level of testing you

need to perform before distributing a Microsoft OS patch throughout your enterprise.

Virtualization Pack for Enterprise Edition

AdminStudio 9.0 Virtualization Pack for Enterprise Edition includes the following new features:

Pre-Conversion Evaluation for Application Virtualization

AdminStudio 9.0 includes a new a Pre-Conversion Evaluation feature to test applications for

virtualization compatibility before proceeding with conversion. This feature enables you to identify which

packages are good candidates for virtualization and to evaluate at a high level how easily a virtualization

solution could be adopted.

When performing a pre-conversion evaluation, Windows Installer Converter applies a set of pre-defined

Acresso Best Practice rules to evaluate packages. However, Windows Installer Converter also

incorporates an extensible test framework that enables you to write your own XML-based custom rules

to detect and remediate issues that could prevent the successful creation of a virtual package. As you

gain experience in virtualization conversion, you can build additional rules to address any issues that

you have found, making the virtualization experience in the future even more streamlined for your

organization. Acresso is preparing a community Web site that will allow for the sharing and support of

application and technology specific rules.

Virtual Application Management

In AdminStudio 9.0, you can import Citrix XenApp and VMware ThinApp virtual packages into the

Application Catalog and the Software Repository, providing packagers with a single, clear interface to

manage both traditional and virtual packages.

Virtual packages are self-contained entities which ordinarily cannot be modified after they are created.

By importing a virtual package into the Application Catalog and associating it with its source Windows

Installer package, you have the convenience of being able to easily locate the virtual package’s

originating Windows Installer package, modify the original Windows Installer package, and then

regenerate the virtual package without having to go through the hassle of recapturing it every time.

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New Features

Virtual Application Suiting

In AdminStudio 9.0, you can convert multiple Windows Installer packages into one virtual application.

This “virtual application suiting” feature enables a virtual application to interact with a secondary

application within its own virtual container, increasing its isolation from the physical system. By

increasing the effective isolation of a virtual application, you minimize the risks to deployment. This

feature was developed to address an inherent shortcoming of application virtualization: the lack of

interoperability between virtual containers.

Virtual Application Batch Conversion

You can now test and convert your entire existing application portfolio of MSIs into individual virtual

packages.

Citrix XenApp 4.5.1 Virtualization Engine Support

AdminStudio 9.0 includes support for Citrix XenApp 4.5.1, the latest version of the Citrix application

virtualization engine.

VMware ThinApp Support, Including AppLink and AppSync

Support

AdminStudio 9.0 includes support for VMware ThinApp 4.x, including its AppLink and AppSync features.

• AppLink (Application Link)—Enables you to configure relationships between ThinApp

applications that work together. You can use the AppLink feature to link runtime components to

applications, link add-ons and plug-ins to applications, and link packaged applications to service

packs.

• AppSync (Application Sync)—Enables you to automatically keep deployed ThinApp

applications up-to-date. When an application starts up, AppSync can query a Web server to see if

an updated version of the package is available. If an update is available, the differences between

the existing package and the new package will be downloaded and used to construct an updated

version of the package. You can use the AppSync feature to distribute runtime components

separately from the applications that use them, and to apply layered service packs to your

applications.

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System Requirements

This section lists the requirements for AdminStudio client tool machines, enterprise tool machines, and

database servers.

AdminStudio Client Tool Machine

The recommended system configuration for a machine running the AdminStudio client tools is:

Application Catalog Database Server

The recommended system configuration for a database server to store AdminStudio application catalog

databases is:

Item Description

Processor 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or greater

RAM 256 MB or greater (512 MB preferred)

Hard Disk 1.1 GB

Display Designed for XGA at 1024 x 768 resolution or higher

Operating System Windows XP (SP1 or later is recommended), Windows Vista, Windows

2000 SP3 or later, or Windows Server. Predeployment Test and

Configuration Manager Web Console require Microsoft IIS 5 or later.

Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later

Privileges Administrative privileges on the system

Item Description

Processor 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or greater

RAM 512 MB or greater (1 GB preferred)

Hard Disk Space 80 GB or greater

Operating System Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server (with

the latest Service Pack)

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System Requirements

AdminStudio Web Server

The recommended system configuration for a machine running the AdminStudio Enterprise tools

(Security Console, Report Center, Job Manager) is:

Database Software AdminStudio supports SQL Server and Oracle databases:

• SQL Server 2000 (with the latest Service Pack) is the minimum

requirement, but SQL Server 2005 or later is highly recommended.

SQL Server must be installed with case-insensitive dictionary sort

order and ISO-8859-1 character set (use

sp_helpsort T- S Q L

command for more information).

• Oracle 9i or later

Item Description

Processor 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or greater

RAM 512 MB or greater (1 GB preferred)

Hard Disk Space 30 GB or greater

Operating System Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server (with

the latest Service Pack)

IIS IIS 5.0 or IIS 6.0

.NET .NET Framework 2.0 (including ASP.NET 2.0 registered with IIS)

MSXML MSXML 4.0

Oracle Client If you are connecting to an Oracle database, the Web Server needs to

have the Oracle client installed. The Oracle Client version can be either 9i

or 10g, depending upon the database server that is going to be used.

Running on a Domain

Controller

If running on a domain controller, you will have to implement one of the

procedures described in the Microsoft Developer Network topic Running

ASP.NET on a Domain Controller, available at:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa579070.aspx

Item Description

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Known Issues

Software Repository Server

The recommended system configuration for the machine that stores the Software Repository files is:

Known Issues

For a complete list of known issues that pertain to the AdminStudio 9.0 release, see the Acresso

Support Knowledge Base.

Item Description

Processor 512 MHz or greater

RAM 512 MB or greater

Hard Disk Space 60 GB or greater

Operating System Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server (with

the latest Service Pack)

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Model: ZENworks 10 Configuration Management SP3

Category: Database software

Type: User guide

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